Thread: Changing location in a Lucid dream

I have had a couple of successes:

1. Over a decade ago, I was trying to visit a world that I had written about. Kind of like a persistent realm thing I guess (back then I didn't know much about persistent realms, but I was inspired by the Myst computer games and wanted to make Ages). Anyway, I think I got there by spinning, but I also lost lucidity if I remember correctly.

2. More recently, I got to the Dream Base while attempting the Task of the Year, with the help of a dream character:

Spoiler for Excerpt from 10.19.2022:

I do a nose pinch RC, and find that I’m dreaming! I try to go looking for the dream base, by imagining it behind me (a portal?), but when I turn around I don’t notice anything different. There is a room full of people. I call out for the Dream Base library, and as I do I see words printed in the dream world that say the words that I’m calling for. One I remember specifically is the word “library”. Where is the Dream Base? Then I remember reading about asking a DC for help. I see a girl sitting at a table near me and ask her where the Dream Base is.

“It’s over there behind Tony,” she says, possibly pointing in the direction she means.

That’s nice to know, but who’s Tony? I start calling out “Tony!” and see a man that looks vaguely Hispanic/Latino sitting at another table. That’s probably Tony. I go look behind him, and see a door leading outside. By this time, I have the idea that what I’m looking for is called a “resort”, and I see a couple of people out the window in bathing suits. I go outside to find myself in a seaside area. I think I correct myself on the “resort” thing and call out for the Dream Base (or Dream Base library). Much of this time I think I’ve been somewhat frantically calling out for the Dream Base, or the Dream Base library. I decide it would be easier to focus on just saying “Dream Base”.

I’m in a small open area, a stone street surrounded by buildings. Looking up, I see a helicopter hovering nearby, as though it’s watching me. I start to look around for the Beacon Tower. I see a large round building. Looking upwards, it appears to be a short tower, ending in a squarish pillar at the top. Then I remember the light that’s supposed to be coming from the column, and a moment later I notice a streak of white across the sky above the tower I was looking at. Upon closer inspection, it seems to be a jet trail, but I’m skeptical that it wasn’t the Beacon light considering how my dreams seem to lag a bit in responding to my suggestions.

3. In an earlier attempt to find the Dream Base, I succeeded in producing an elevator that took me down into the depths of the Earth:

Spoiler for Excerpt from "Looking for the Dream Base (Lucid!)":

I push some things aside, and just find a wall. There are some protrusions on the wall, like something was nailed there. I find a squarish one, and pretend that it is a button that will activate something (maybe an elevator?) to take us to the Dream Base library. It gives a little, acting like a button, and then the shelves that I have been searching start to detach from the wall. The shelves and floor that we have been standing on detach from their surroundings, and become part of a hidden elevator suspended in a somewhat darkened shaft.

4. And in this occasion I traveled to another one of my world/Age/realm things by flying, imagining the location, and describing what I was looking for:

Spoiler for Excerpt from "Journey to Synthos":

I am doing something, and decide to do a nose pinch RC. I can breathe and conclude that I must be dreaming. I jump into the air, willing myself to levitate but also flapping my arms as though they were wings. This seems to help me fly, and I rise into the air. I look around at the scenery below me, and decide that I will try to go to Synthos (I have tried in the past but I don't think I have succeeded). I look around at the landscape and try to imagine the city, and then I start describing the buildings to myself and wait for things to change. In a moment or two, large buildings begin to appear in the landscape. They aren't quite the gleaming whiteness of how I imagined Synthos or as close together as an urban area, but it's a step in the right direction. This might be the outskirts anyway. I keep concentrating on the description of Synthos, and more and more large buildings appear. I am now flying above a decently sized town, and the buildings seem to be getting larger all the time. I glide in closer to a section of town. The buildings are still of a browner, brick-colored appearance, but my goal was Synthos so it seems likely that this is a part of that city. I can see some writing on one of the buildings (I might have been able to read a word or two, but I don't remember what it was.

Continuing to fly, I come across some water. This is like a large river, but it isn't running between two halves of the city at this point. I might be in a different section of town yet, though. The city is to my right, along the coast of what seems like an ocean now. I fly along and find a place between two tall buildings that looks fun to explore. There is a city street here, with buildings towering on either side (more stereotypically Synthos-ish now, though still not completely white). I land.

Originally Posted by cedwards105

I have had a couple of successes:

1. Over a decade ago, I was trying to visit a world that I had written about. Kind of like a persistent realm thing I guess (back then I didn't know much about persistent realms, but I was inspired by the Myst computer games and wanted to make Ages). Anyway, I think I got there by spinning, but I also lost lucidity if I remember correctly.

2. More recently, I got to the Dream Base while attempting the Task of the Year, with the help of a dream character:

Spoiler for Excerpt from 10.19.2022:

I do a nose pinch RC, and find that I’m dreaming! I try to go looking for the dream base, by imagining it behind me (a portal?), but when I turn around I don’t notice anything different. There is a room full of people. I call out for the Dream Base library, and as I do I see words printed in the dream world that say the words that I’m calling for. One I remember specifically is the word “library”. Where is the Dream Base? Then I remember reading about asking a DC for help. I see a girl sitting at a table near me and ask her where the Dream Base is.

“It’s over there behind Tony,” she says, possibly pointing in the direction she means.

That’s nice to know, but who’s Tony? I start calling out “Tony!” and see a man that looks vaguely Hispanic/Latino sitting at another table. That’s probably Tony. I go look behind him, and see a door leading outside. By this time, I have the idea that what I’m looking for is called a “resort”, and I see a couple of people out the window in bathing suits. I go outside to find myself in a seaside area. I think I correct myself on the “resort” thing and call out for the Dream Base (or Dream Base library). Much of this time I think I’ve been somewhat frantically calling out for the Dream Base, or the Dream Base library. I decide it would be easier to focus on just saying “Dream Base”.

I’m in a small open area, a stone street surrounded by buildings. Looking up, I see a helicopter hovering nearby, as though it’s watching me. I start to look around for the Beacon Tower. I see a large round building. Looking upwards, it appears to be a short tower, ending in a squarish pillar at the top. Then I remember the light that’s supposed to be coming from the column, and a moment later I notice a streak of white across the sky above the tower I was looking at. Upon closer inspection, it seems to be a jet trail, but I’m skeptical that it wasn’t the Beacon light considering how my dreams seem to lag a bit in responding to my suggestions.

3. In an earlier attempt to find the Dream Base, I succeeded in producing an elevator that took me down into the depths of the Earth:

Spoiler for Excerpt from "Looking for the Dream Base (Lucid!)":

I push some things aside, and just find a wall. There are some protrusions on the wall, like something was nailed there. I find a squarish one, and pretend that it is a button that will activate something (maybe an elevator?) to take us to the Dream Base library. It gives a little, acting like a button, and then the shelves that I have been searching start to detach from the wall. The shelves and floor that we have been standing on detach from their surroundings, and become part of a hidden elevator suspended in a somewhat darkened shaft.

4. And in this occasion I traveled to another one of my world/Age/realm things by flying, imagining the location, and describing what I was looking for:

Spoiler for Excerpt from "Journey to Synthos":

I am doing something, and decide to do a nose pinch RC. I can breathe and conclude that I must be dreaming. I jump into the air, willing myself to levitate but also flapping my arms as though they were wings. This seems to help me fly, and I rise into the air. I look around at the scenery below me, and decide that I will try to go to Synthos (I have tried in the past but I don't think I have succeeded). I look around at the landscape and try to imagine the city, and then I start describing the buildings to myself and wait for things to change. In a moment or two, large buildings begin to appear in the landscape. They aren't quite the gleaming whiteness of how I imagined Synthos or as close together as an urban area, but it's a step in the right direction. This might be the outskirts anyway. I keep concentrating on the description of Synthos, and more and more large buildings appear. I am now flying above a decently sized town, and the buildings seem to be getting larger all the time. I glide in closer to a section of town. The buildings are still of a browner, brick-colored appearance, but my goal was Synthos so it seems likely that this is a part of that city. I can see some writing on one of the buildings (I might have been able to read a word or two, but I don't remember what it was.

Continuing to fly, I come across some water. This is like a large river, but it isn't running between two halves of the city at this point. I might be in a different section of town yet, though. The city is to my right, along the coast of what seems like an ocean now. I fly along and find a place between two tall buildings that looks fun to explore. There is a city street here, with buildings towering on either side (more stereotypically Synthos-ish now, though still not completely white). I land.

Cool! what is a Dream Base or Dream Library? a place of hidden knowledge? Asking for help from a DC is a good idea, I should definitely do it in my next lucid dream! Even imagining that something is a hidden button to ad elevator is a nice way of reframing.. i need to remember this.

Thanks, Tiktaalik. I knew there was a thread like that somewhere.

Merged Thread to keep everything together on this topic.

~Lang.
DV Mod.
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Not sure if this count as a normal transportation dream but, When I was younger, I imagined myself in a lightbulb in my waking life by staring at it. I imagined what would it feel like in there. That night, I ended up having a lucid dream days later where I transported myself into an old fashion lightbulb that sat bolted to a table observing the room beyond the glass.

Originally Posted by Mkrlexus

Cool! what is a Dream Base or Dream Library? a place of hidden knowledge?

The Dream Base is part of the Task of the Year for 2022: https://www.dreamviews.com/tasks-mon...ream-base.html

My goal has been to find/create a library as part of the Dream Base. I hadn't really thought about what would be in the books, but that's a really exciting thought now that you bring it up!

Originally Posted by Mkrlexus

This often happens inside my home that I know well but never happened outside it.

So I guess if you know the place well you don't even need to visualize it to get there, different is if you want to go to a place that you barely know.

exactly!
There are two types of Transits.

First one - is the same as You are talking about. When You know location, You can transfer Yourself to that place using any tricks You want - spinning, closing eyes, go thrue windows or mirrors, painting dorrs or elevators...
This is very useful trick, using Your Dream Map, to go, where You need. DreamHackers studied their Dream Maps using cartography. So they knew a lot of locations and can go there with their intention only. That is why (one of the reasons) we need to do dreammapping.

The second type of Transits is more interesting. There a some transits in Map from opne location to another, and these transits are archetipic - common for all "users". As example - we have transit from "computer club" to the "House of Teachers". This Transit is stable and works for everyone.